Hi
there fellow friend of ghostly mcnasty....... I discovered
scream when I was 'just a wee lad' by buying no.1 for the
groovy green fangs, thought it was MUCHO fantastico and
bought them all (brain's been full of stoker,B-movies,comix
etc since my time in the womb). what a bummer when I went
down the newsagent one fine morning and nice old Mrs whatever
said it was deceased! anyway, I've still got the full set
and am interested in valueing, possibly to sell etc....but
as you mention, it's almost as if SCREEEEAAAAMMMM!!!! never
existed (god forbid). any advice, info or just plain scream
waffle would be much appreciated. - gezburn@hotmail.com

I
can't believe that there are other people who still think
about 'Scream'! Fantastic! I too bought the full set (including
the Summer Specials) and had the fangs from issue1 and the
spider from issue 2. Sadly, I no longer know where mine
are. Afriend of mine used them years ago for some research
on comix / graphic novels, and since then i haven't clapped
eyes on them. Anyway, good to see i'm not the only one that
remembers. Keep screaming. - Jo Barber

Hi
Scream! fans, Just wanted to put my complements in about
the fantastic Scream comic. It is still a really good read,
there hasn't been anything like it since. If only it could
have continued, if I were Bill Gates, I'd pay anything to
get the original team to continue where they left off! -
Mike

It
was only recently that I began thinking about the great
comic I started to buy in 1984, and was gutted when, like
gezburn, Jo and MIke my corner shop owner told me it had
been stopped. I had all the issues but have sadly not kept
any, my favourite strip being The 13th Floor.

Does anyone know what happened and why they
stopped it, were we the only four people to know about it's
short but fulfilled existence, maybe it's was a conspiracy
as it was too good, and if more than four youngsters read
it, they would loose the faith of a whole generation, or
they just run out money!

Anywau great to know there are people out
there still pining for this great piece of comic history.
- Bones

I
too had the full set of Scream (having blagged the first
issue minus fangs from a disappointed friend) I kept all
the issues for many years but have lost rack of them now.
I do recall a friend telling me that scream became incorporated
into another comic in a sort of "Whizzer and Chips" way.
Can't recall what that comic was, sorry, but it would appear
that there was life after death! - Michael

Hi,
I seem to be the only girl who loved Scream. I think it
was cancelled because to many mums complained to the publishers
because of its graphic depiction of gore and violence, or
so I remember. It merged with the Eagle which I then bought,
until all the original scream stories ran to an end. - Liz

No
Liz! you weren't the only girl to like scream. I too religiously
bought every edition and hid them under my bed and scared
myself shitless every night, until my mum found them and
threw them out. I have mourned the loss ever since and would
love to re-read them. When I saw the front page on 26Pigs,
I could remember every detail! Well done. - Tosca

Hi
there, as far as i know scream was cancelled because of
the Mary Whitehouse brigade, i mean there had never been
anything like it before (i learned to read looking at this
comic, it was incredible) just how mothers felt with their
kids staring at these 'horrible pictures' i can see this
being the case because my newsagent had some complaints
about it so he stopped stocking it before it finished but
carried on ordering it for me.

Scream joined with the 80s eagle and MONSTER
and 13th floor continued, this wsa about 1986 because the
specials produced (mainly reprint) had sold incredibly and
the stories had been paid for already. - Tony

I
too bought my first copy of scream for the free fangs, I
read the copy and ended up loving it to bits, i'd save up
my pennies for every issue and would be down at the newsagents
before it even opened waiting for my copy. When i was told
they had stopped publishing it, i was heartbroken and even
wrote to the company to ask how i could find out what happens
to monster!! It was a brilliant comic and i still haven't
found out what happened to it. - Dato
Khan, Sheffield

I
would just like to add a few words to the many other fans
of Scream Comic.

I too thought it was one of the greatest comics
and started collecting from issue 1 but unfortunately only
got to issue 5 as my newsagent didn't get any further issues.
I later found out that it only ran for about 15 issues -
had I known this I would have trekked the further mile to
another newsagents to continue the collection.

I don't think it was any censorship or complaints
that caused it to stop otherwise comics like 2000AD would
have stopped too. I think it was like many others just not
selling enough and, yes, it did eventually merge with Eagle
(another great) but sadly this was about the same time that
I supposedly grew up and started purchasing more serious
literature. The mistakes we make when we look back!

Anyway, I still have the first 5 issues tucked
safely away and have seen the first issue on Ebay for £20
and a full set for £30. So quite a steal for that price
- should be worth quite a bit more in another 10-20 years.
- Rob Dewick

Scream
is also of note as not only does contain work by a number
of top 2000AD artists that has never been reprinted anywhere
else, but the 'Monster' was also some of Alan Moore's earliest
work. - Tony

I
was a massive fan of scream when I was a kid, I remember
my brother and I going to the shop for sweets and seeeing
the first issue on the shelf. We both got a first copy each
and from then we collected every one including the holiday
specials. I found them all at my parents house a couple
of months ago and they are as good as I remember. We have
3 issue 1's and then all the rest that go upto the mid 30's.
- James

Like
most of scream readers I thought I was the only one....
The characters made more people go goth than they have credit
for. Because of my love for the comic and graphics I ended
up being a cartoonist designer too. - DarwinDarwinianTheory
Design

My set of Scream comic plus all but one (128!) of the Eagle/Scream merged issues have just been advertised on Ebay.
- John Adams